The film Run Lola Run, directed by Tom Tywker in 1998, is a distinctly visual film. The movie focuses on fate and how slight variations change the outcome of an inevitable ending. Before the movie even begins it starts with clock a ticking and its pendulum rocking back and forth. If the title of the movie doesn’t make you think about a timeline, the sound of the tick and tock certainly will. The clock serves as a motif. The movie starts with a timeline: 20 minutes. 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 marks. 20 minutes until Manni robs the grocery store. 20 minutes until Ronnie finds out he lost the money and kills Manni.
Image result for run lola run gifThe film direction takes you on a trip with the main character Lola. The whole movie is literally watching her run against this clock in three different versions. Throughout each version she’s running against fate. Tykwer used a lot of quick cut shots in …show more content…
The part of the video game where you select your character and it gives you a 360 degree view. Which later tied in with the animation that was used throughout the film. This is used to show Lola’s sense of this fantasy or animated life that she lives in her head. There are multiple scenes that show a cartoon of Lola running down the stairs. We get to see the action she’s going through in real life on the TV screen in the movie. One time the neighbor with the dog puts his legs out making her fall down the stairs, dramatically, like a video game. The next time she jumps over the dog and learns from what happened in the “last level”. The second motif used throughout the movie was the phone. Every time it gets dropped back on the hook it signified the start of the next 20 minute timeline, or a restart of the same level for Lola and Manni. It was essentially a game, a game that she kept playing until she won. Though she didn’t get to save Manni, she did end up winning quite literally in the end of it
Image result for run lola run gifThe film direction takes you on a trip with the main character Lola. The whole movie is literally watching her run against this clock in three different versions. Throughout each version she’s running against fate. Tykwer used a lot of quick cut shots in …show more content…
The part of the video game where you select your character and it gives you a 360 degree view. Which later tied in with the animation that was used throughout the film. This is used to show Lola’s sense of this fantasy or animated life that she lives in her head. There are multiple scenes that show a cartoon of Lola running down the stairs. We get to see the action she’s going through in real life on the TV screen in the movie. One time the neighbor with the dog puts his legs out making her fall down the stairs, dramatically, like a video game. The next time she jumps over the dog and learns from what happened in the “last level”. The second motif used throughout the movie was the phone. Every time it gets dropped back on the hook it signified the start of the next 20 minute timeline, or a restart of the same level for Lola and Manni. It was essentially a game, a game that she kept playing until she won. Though she didn’t get to save Manni, she did end up winning quite literally in the end of it